The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2018 - 30-26

We're reaching the halfway stage now, with the songs that ranked 30-26 in our countdown for the year. This section features one of Northern Ireland's best singer-songwriters, some nostalgic dance music, a wonderfully powerful cover of a classic by The Cranberries, and two stalwards of mid-00s British indie-rock -

30. Ciaran Lavery - To Chicago

29. Boston Bun & DVNO - Spread Love (Paddington) 

28. Bad Wolves - Zombie 

27. Franz Ferdinand - Feel The Love Go 

26. The Wombats - Cheetah Tongue 

The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2018 - 35-31

Numbers 35 to 31 next. In this part, we've got a heartbreaking song about the Orlando shootings, a Scottish purveyor of pop-rock, a sincere cover version of one of the most notable dance records of the 90s, a project by one of the people responsible for the Hamster Dance song and Daz Sampson's Eurovision entry, and a Cork singer-songwriter who also happens to run a podcast with the artist who was #49 in this year's countdown:

35. Gizmo Varillas - Losing You

34. ONR - American Gods

33. Nathan O' Regan - Moving Closer 

32. Spray - Anthologised By Cherry Red

31. Astræa - You're Not Alone

The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2018 - 40-36

Numbers 40 to 36 are next in this five-song-at a-time countdown. Within the five songs in question is one of the biggest artists of the year with one of his tiniest hits of the year, his brother, one of the finest purveyors of alternative Irish folk, some infectious dance music, and the artist responsible for one of the greatest songs of all time with their own version of a Weezer standard:

40. George Ezra - Pretty Shining People

39. Toto - Hash Pipe

38. Ten Tonnes - Lay It On Me 

37. Joshua Burnside - A Man of High Renown 

36. Benin City - Final Form

The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2018 - 45-41

Up next are songs from 45 to 41 in the countdown. This sections includes two top notch local singer/songwriters, Welsh indie-pop, Dutch/Finnish indie-rock, and a song about Belfast's top technological marvel, Titanic -

45. Seazoo - St Hilary Sings

44. King Cedar - Hard Luck Anodyne

43. Town of Saints - Up In Smoke

42. Public Service Broadcasting - White Star Liner 

41. Owen Denvir - Human Touch

The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2018 - 50-46

Time for the annual listageddon here at The Metaphorical Boat. Over the next few days we will be counting down the blog's top 50 songs of 2018. There will be songs that have featured on the blog, songs that didn't feature on the blog, songs that have graced our lovely Spotify playlists over the last 12 months, and songs that really should have featured. But regardless, they are all awesome, and hopefully there will be a few songs here that will float your Metaphorical Boat.

Let us begin, as we normally do, with the songs at numbers 50 through 46 in our favourite songs of 2018. The part of the countdown features some noise-rock from the North West of England, English folk, Dutch electro-rockers who aren't fans of orange, Omagh musican-cum podcaster extraordinaire, and Wolverine himself - 

50. Hugh Jackman - The Greatest Show



49. Son of The Hound - The Also Rans



48. De Staat - KITTY KITTY



47. Straw Bear - Be Prepared



46. Déjà Vega - Eyes of Steel